Dull Men's Club

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I've created a new Lemmy instance at dullsters.net

This previous Saturday, I decided to try out my new battery powered 8" mini chainsaw. I was very stupid, and ended up holding a branch that was too small to stabilize it so it could cut it off. Of course, the saw bounced and hit the hand holding the branch.

I bought a shitbox Chevy Impala two years back as a cheap commuter. I've been avoiding putting any money into it, because this thing is beat.

I drive very little so I only need to change it annually. 2100 miles in a year.

My bed had been squeaking every time I moved on my side and I'd wake my partner up every time I'd get up and get back into bed.

spent most of the day gaming with my wife playing baldurs gate 3 and eating fresh fruit. apples, bananas, oranges, and some seaweed snack packs from cosco, kirkland brand because they pack them packs full as hell, and i like that. then i saw a movie with my mom, my brother, and my wife. first time doing that in a long while.

Then I took a shower, went to the gas station and Library, then had a Moscow Mule in the back yard.

I've been hosting a Tarkov server for some friends (SP Tarkov with FIKA). I also set up a headless client to run the AI calculations and WOW it is RAM hungry. The server froze several times after running out of memory.

Pretty much the title. It's really weird to scratch my chin and not run my fingers through hair. As a plus, my five year old keeps telling me "you look like a completely different person. But I still know you're my daddy!"

intentionally not showing photo because its always super gross in there. its cleaning like 10% better now. #worth

My past four days have not been dull. Today was. Shrimp scampi leftovers are not to be trusted after the third day.

That's it. Just never done it before and it took under an hour. It's easy to do. Buy some cleaner and watch a YouTube tutorial.

We got some shelves built by a local carpenter, and they just needed a bit of polish; so they have now been attacked with white spirit, a little bit of wax filler, and some stinky oily stuff. Hopefully they'll be dry tomorrow and I can put some DVDs on them.

This was a victory.

There was a wind storm two years ago that broke a huge chunk of my tree and left it hanging on. You could probably hang off it and it would not come loose, we tried getting it with ropes but it was wedged in tight between some branches.

I have been getting beaten down between 24/7 job uncertainty with the bad engineering market right now, a full-strip house renovation, and not sleeping well.

We dont usually have rats inside. It must have wandered in during the day. Theres a lot of them outside.

It was my first time doing it and it went well thanks to some help from my neighbour.

Unfortunately, it's so stinking dry this spring that I blew up a serious cloud of dust going over a few thin patches. Now our clean windows have a coating of dust. Don't tell the wife.

Now it doesn't make any noise and turns smoothly. Feels good.

Previous owners had put up an incorrectly placed smoke alarm. It was almost directly over the stove in the kitchen! I took it down when we moved in, but never bothered to take down the housing attached to the wall.

I took today off work because I had ordered a new graphics card so I could enjoy Oblivion this weekend. Shipping info specified delivery between 08.00 and 12.30 so I sat by the window the entire morning. Then, the shipping info changed to "12.30-15.30" so I continued waiting. And I felt a bowel movement coming on.

Annual checkup and blood work. Cancer screening for some family history. Also got a nagging shoulder looked at and treated with a steroid injection. Happy it wasn't a tear.

2021 Seat Leon Mk4, updated manually, took 2h to update all maps of Europe from a USB stick.

I got a $32 credit for measuring my house and home office space.

I'm on track to use my bike every 2 years now. I've got my count down at 726 days.

I forgot my key on the hole and locked the door when I got in. Now I can't open the door.

I’m having some issues with plantar fasciitis so I picked up inserts for all the shoes I wear regularly, including my house slippers. Seems to be helping already.

I have several old tools that I want to add some grip to, and some synthetic rope I need to dress the ends of.

There was no mail.

Just bought 8 sacks of dirt for a couple of pear trees coming in this week. The ground is very loamy so it will need some prep, but in the end it will be worth it in a couple of years for the first harvest.

It's probably 2 years since anyone in the house used our bikes.

The last time there was a sale on poster printing, when I went to pick up my poster, it was total chaos. I waited for a half an hour and then started to talking to the only person working who knew the machines who was very sick. Then, another worker, who doesn't know how to work the machines tried to help. Printer wouldn't work.

The lawnmower decided that Easter is a good time to stop working. I took it apart, cleaned fuel lines and the carburettor, put in a new spark plug, cleaned the air filter, and put it back together. It started with the first pull. Result.

The toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs has two part hinges, where you mount two pins on the toilet and snap the seat and lid on. Something broke in the snapping part this week. Fixed it by removing some plastic from the clamping mechanism, put some epoxy putty in there and around the pins, then placed the seat back. It's still on there today, so it worked I guess.

First time I did it by myself. Only spilled a little.

After several small projects, it was time for a cleaning and organizing. Spent like 3 hours and the place is still a disorganized wreck. I've just got too much shit in a little building.

They are soft.

They slide in nice and smooth now. Wish I'd done it months ago, it was very easy.

Getting ready for the summer. Had to run around town because even though they exchange empty tanks for full ones at the gas station, they will not sell you a completely new tank.

Took a nap instead. I threw my back out a week ago, and sleeping is difficult. But I happened to be on the bed earlier and found a position that didn't hurt, so I was like "oh yeah, I'm not moving" and had an incredible nap.

We don't get paid for it in Australia but it'll go to helping someone who needs it.

It was quite relaxing, though I only managed to do half of it, and none of the chairs. So I'm going to ask the paint shop manager at work if he's got time to give them to the sand blasters.

saw bird. Outside

Am electrician and live in a double-wide so I haven't tinkered with it beyond swapping some devices. Feels good to be able to just do stuff like this, as simple as it is. I was not raised to be very handy so learning all this has been a deliberate process.

I had no free buckets to hold the derusting solution in that the vise would fit comfortably, so I had to use a plastic box that was too wide. It would not submerge fully in the 1 Liter of derusting solution I bought, I had to soak one side for 24 hours and then the other side for 24 hours. It mostly cleared the rust. I'm considering painting it now, but I don't think I'm going to.

I had dental surgery like, a month ago. Posted about it here. Instead of a front tooth I've got a metal (titanium I think?) cap sticking out of my gums. The tip of my tongue constantly touches it and I'm really over it.

In response to u/FridayLives. Planet Fitness has been taking $10 a month from my bank account for years. They figured out if they stop taking the $30 annual BS fee from inactive members, most of us let $10 a month slide; and I did for a long time.

The trees made for an unsafe exit when in full bloom, so I got out ahead of that and cut them down. One of the trees was big enough that I had to use a wedge and notch cut with rope to keep it from falling on a busy road. I succeeded. Now we can see way farther when turning out and are safer. Yes, I used eye protection and gloves.

I didn't have to do anything because it's been seeding 24/7 for a few years now. But as I checked my stats on various torrents, I got the pleasant surprise that another person cares about outing these pathetic losers. Cheers.

Had been considering joining a gym for like 3 years now, on and off. My brain keeps re-prioritizing it. Finally got around to get one. Planning to go in today.

I've been lifting weights consistently for a couple years and consider myself to be in good shape. It's time to come off the winter bulk and I figured that starting up jogging would be an easy way to improve my conditioning and start dropping some weight, so I went out for my first jog yesterday after work.

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

It was time so I really threw out tons of cables nobody will ever need again and of the rest I kept one or at most two.

Drywall jobs are a common occurrence in my line of work. I was fixing a cracked seam at a customer's house and had about a 15 mm deep gap to fill. Generally, I've just used the pre-mixed stuff from a bucket, but that dries so slowly and shrinks so much that a job like this would have needed to be spread over at least four days.

We bought a new microwave last year and I haven't been able to time it just right with this one yet, it's been driving me nuts. The previous one we had was fairly easy to accomplish this feat on, which gave me an inflated microwave-opening ego. However, this one commonly taunted me with a blinking "00:01" after each attempt. No longer! I have finally conquered this beast.

I always hated this cheap plastic one we had, if you shifted it would slide around and the little feet would slide off the rim. So I went to Lowe’s and bought a wood one, then installed it. It’s much better.